Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 17:37:03 GMT From: amesnospamrak.demon.co.uk (Andrew Stephenson) Subject: Re: MOT?
In article <2scejvF1jhak7U1nospamberlin.de> grunffnospam.com "Grunff" writes: > Bengt ÷sterdahl wrote: > > > Excuse me for being so ignorant; what is MOT that a lot of > > people in this group speak of? > > It's the UK annual car inspection. All cars over 3 years old > have to undergo this, which includes an emissions test. Best drop the other shoe, or the lad will continue wondering... "MOT" == "Ministry of Transport", which used to be the name of the *.gov.uk department supervising the test. Responsibilities were taken over by the Dept of the Environment, so strictly it's now the "DoE test". One of those cultural-memory things. <g> -- Andrew Stephenson